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Andrei Grechko

1903 - 1976

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Andrei Antonovich Grechko (Russian: Андре́й Анто́нович Гре́чко, Ukrainian: Андрій Антонович Гречко; 17 October [O.S. 4 October] 1903 – 26 April 1976) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He served as the Soviet Minister of Defence from 1967 to 1976. Born to a Ukrainian peasant family near Rostov-on-Don, Grechko served in the Red Army cavalry during the Russian Civil War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrei Grechko has received more than 277,785 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Andrei Grechko is the 346th most popular military personnel (down from 321st in 2019), the 279th most popular biography from Russia (down from 278th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Andrei Grechko was a Soviet military commander who led the Soviet forces during the Battle of Berlin.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Andrei Grechko ranks 346 out of 2,058. Before him are Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Kim Philby, Italo Gariboldi, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Eduard Dietl, and Toyotomi Hideyori. After him are Hans-Valentin Hube, Rudolf Abel, James Paul Moody, Henri Giraud, Hugo Sperrle, and Huang Zhong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Andrei Grechko ranks 46. Before him are Lars Onsager, Georg Elser, Alec Douglas-Home, Empress Kōjun, Bing Crosby, and John Eccles. After him are Rudolf Abel, Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, John Vincent Atanasoff, Claudio Arrau, and Giulio Natta. Among people deceased in 1976, Andrei Grechko ranks 38. Before him are Dalton Trumbo, Benjamin Graham, Lars Onsager, Émile Benveniste, Anneliese Michel, and Tove Ditlevsen. After him are Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, René Cassin, Josef Albers, Paul Lazarsfeld, David Elazar, and Yonatan Netanyahu.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrei Grechko ranks 279 out of 3,761. Before him are Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938), Ramzan Kadyrov (1976), Vasily Vereshchagin (1842), and Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843). After him are Aleksandr Dugin (1962), Varlam Shalamov (1907), Oleg Penkovsky (1919), Eugen Sandow (1867), Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia (1843), and Eduard Limonov (1943).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Andrei Grechko ranks 27. Before him are Dmitry Yazov (1924), Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), Nikolai Yudenich (1862), Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), and Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856). After him are Sergei Skripal (1951), Kirill Meretskov (1897), Alexander Yegorov (1883), Leonid Govorov (1897), Vasily Arkhipov (1926), and Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904).

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